53. EMBEKIZA. 521 



&i 



Consul Swinhoe [ 

 Consul Swinhoe [ 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Consul Swinhoe [C] 



20. Emberiza personata. 



Emberiza personata, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 580 (1835) ; Graij, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 377 (1844) ; Temm. $ Schl. Faun. Jap., Ares, pi. 59 b. 



(1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 465 (1850) ; Horsf. § Moore, Cat. F. I. 



Co. Mus.il p. 484 (1856); Shrink. Ibis, 1861, pp. 45, 334, 1862, 



p. 258, 1872, p. 80, 1874, p. 161 ; Tacz. Bull Soc. Zool. France, 



i. p. 176 (1876); Blakist. $ Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 243; iid. B. 



Japan, p. 170 (1882); Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 182; Blakist. 



Amended List B. Japan, pp. 17, 6i (1884). 

 Emberiza siilphurata, Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 203. 

 Citiinella personata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7689 (1870). 

 Euspiza personata, Swinh. Ibis, 1866, p. 62. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous-brown mesially streaked 

 with black, the feathers of the mantle with pale ashy-fulvous 

 markings ; the lower back and rump olive-brown, slightly mottled 

 with dusky centres to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts uniform 

 olive-brown ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, edged with 

 pale olive-brown, slightly rufescent, and tipped with dull white, 

 rather broader on median series ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 dusky brown, washed externally with ashy ; quills dusky brown, 

 externally edged with rufous, the primaries with pale olive, the 

 innermost secondaries externally ashy whitish ; upper tail-coverts 

 and centre tail-feathers light brown, edged with sandy buff ; rest of 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with sandy buff; penultimate feather 

 with a wedge-shaped mark of white, larger on the outermost one, 

 which has the outermost web white towards the base ; crown of 

 bead, occiput, nape, and hind neck dark olive-greenish, slightly 

 streaked with black mesial lines, some of the nape-feathers on the 

 sides of hinder crown tipped with reddish brown ; lores, eyebrow, 

 feathers round eye, fore part of cheeks, and spot on chin black ; 

 ear-coverts ashy grey with a slight yellow tinge, and surmounted 

 by a slight streak of sulphur-yellow along the side of the hinder 

 crown ; cheeks sulphur-yellow, separated from the throat by a malar 

 line of dusky spots ; throat and fore neck sulphur-yellow, with tiny 

 mesial streaks of dusky ; chest and upper breast sulphur-yellow, 

 mottled with olive-green centres to the feathers, many of which 

 have dusky tips ; sides of upper breast olive-green ; lower breast and 

 abdomen bright sulphur-yellow, whitish towards vent; sides of 

 body and flanks browner, broadly streaked with black ; thighs 

 greenish yellow towards tibial joint ; under tail-coverts pale sulphur- 

 yellow, with olive-brown centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, washed with pale sulphur-yellow, especially the outer edge 

 of wing ; quills below dusky, inner edge ashy. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2 - S5, tail 2 - 45, tarsus 0"8. 



